Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Swatting a never-ending parade of flies away from my face as I gaze out at the dry yellow landscape before me, I find it hard to imagine that the place where I’m standing was once a lush forest, at ...

A rare fish more commonly spotted in prehistoric times has been sighted off the British coast for the first time in two decades. Diver Charles Hood was swimming amongst blue sharks when he found ...

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The fossil found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. The dolphin-sized ichthyosaur has been ...

A skeleton discovered on Dorset’s Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. The dolphin-sized ichthyosaur, called Xiphodracon ...

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Watch this video to uncover how scientists use great white shark teeth to estimate their size, and how they apply similar techniques to the extinct megalodon. Learn about the challenges of determining ...

The well-preserved floor of a house was uncovered at the excavations. Credit: Ministry of Culture, Cyprus Archaeologists in Cyprus have completed a highly successful first excavation season at the ...

In a discovery that’s making waves among marine biologists, divers in Indonesia have captured the first underwater photographs of a living Sulawesi coelacanth — Latimeria menadoensis — a species often ...